Golden Moments: Kerri Pottharst
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Every show in the lead-up to the Games in Paris, Christian is taking you back to some of the most iconic Aussie gold-medal winning moments and talking to the athletes themselves about what it was all like. It's guaranteed to give you goosebumps and get you pumped for the Games!
Today we heard Kerri Pottharst retell her amazing beach volleyball win in Sydney.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Christian O'Connell's show. Now in today's |
| 0:07.8 | golden moments, we're counted down to the Games in Paris this weekend. Opening ceremony Friday |
| 0:12.2 | night in Paris, early Saturday morning for us here in Australia. These golden moments, are they |
| 0:17.9 | just amazing to listen to where an Australian gold medal winner |
| 0:22.2 | takes us back to that exact moment, what was happening in the stadium, and more importantly, |
| 0:26.3 | they take us into inside their heads, what's happening in there. And before we go to today's one, |
| 0:31.3 | which is at the Sydney Games on Bondi Beach and Kerry Potthurst and a partner Natickok winning |
| 0:37.1 | gold, which I can only imagine |
| 0:38.6 | what a defining moment that must be on home soil, on Bondi sand as well, which is incredible. |
| 0:43.9 | But you guys must have remembered watching this. |
| 0:46.6 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:47.5 | I remember them coming. |
| 0:48.6 | You didn't know anything about them ever, like no one had ever heard of them. |
| 0:52.1 | Then within a week, the entire nation's behind them and |
| 0:54.8 | everyone's focused on this one game it was crazy so we were watching it definitely it was one of |
| 0:59.3 | those things yeah we never thought twice about beach volleyball as a sport but all of a sudden |
| 1:03.3 | it's like oh no we care deeply about this and it's really important that we win did you |
| 1:07.9 | absolutely did you those girls were a power force. |
| 1:11.7 | Amazing for Sikhs, too, I might add. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah. I'm glad you said that, not Jack. |
| 1:16.4 | No, they were stunning girls. |
| 1:18.1 | No, but beach volleyball is such a hard sport to play. |
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